What if there were a fabric that, like Superman, could take a bullet and self-heal? Such a super-dynamic, action-powered polymer might actually help ...

The immune system is primed to detect and respond to foreign objects. In some cases, the immune system might reject lifesaving devices such as pacemakers or drug delivery systems. But in all cases, ...

Space debris is becoming an overwhelming problem. Between 2019 and 2023, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites made more than 50,000 ...

High-performance polymers can compete with metallic systems in harsh processing environments and may offer potential benefits ...

"Notably, unlike recent reports of 2D MIPs made by tangling linear polymer chains, our material forms a flat, interlocked structure using symmetrical three-armed monomers," explained Professor ...

"Notably, unlike recent reports of 2D MIPs made by tangling linear polymer chains, our material forms a flat, interlocked structure using symmetrical three-armed monomers," explained Professor ...

They found that defective fillers facilitate more efficient heat transfer because their uneven surfaces don’t allow the polymer chains to pack together as tightly as the perfectly smooth fillers do.

Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China Key Laboratory for Green Chemical ...

Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China State Key Laboratory of ...

In this work, we employ gamma radiation (γ ray) to induce surface modifications on the dielectric materials (polymers in this work) and study its influence on CE. It is found that, due to the high ...